Speech Evaluation: Part 1

According to what I read on Hot Air earlier today, Obama recently finished giving speech number 263 after being in office for only 231 days.  Ironically, these appearances used to boost his ratings, but nowadays they seem to be having the opposite effect.  Now, let's consider the presentation he gave to the nation's students earlier this week.

Although it caused me a great deal of abdominal discomfort, I actually did tune in to view the "School Speech" that was given on Tuesday.  However, the highly anticipated address actually turned out to be rather bland and boring.  Just some more of, "Do your homework," "Study hard," blah, blah, blah.  

For the most part, this was basically just another example of the president using our tax dollars to aggrandize himself and score some political points.  He actually used the word "I" a total of 56 times in a speech that lasted only about 15 minutes.  This means he referred to himself approximately every 16 seconds.  But, who's counting?

Furthermore, did anyone else realize that he used Michael Jordan as an example for "not giving up," while simultaneously telling the kids to stop dreaming about being professional athletes?  Yeah, that makes a whole lot of sense.

The presentation, which originally included a lesson plan requiring students to compose an essay explaining what they can do to help Obama spread socialism, actually just turned out to be another boring opportunity for teenagers to hear, "Stay in school and work hard."  Isn't this really just something their teachers should be telling them every day instead of wasting thousands and thousands of our tax dollars to cover security, transportation, and nourishment for all the personnel necessary for such an event?

The more remarkable news of this occasion is that a bunch of regular citizens were eventually able to change the subjects of his oration and prevent the infamous "lesson plan" from being implemented.  However, the audacity displayed by the White House for proposing the lesson plan in the first place is quite telling.  Is that really listed as a role of the federal government somewhere, or am I just confused?

My Rating:  3/10

The message was somewhat encouraging and mostly non-political, but still very self-serving a huge waste of resources that could have just been left in my checking account.

Evaluation of Health Care Speech to come later today...